FIRST DERBY WINNER
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter) BENTLEY. (Canada), i “Our family first won the English Derby in 1834,” says the brochure on Shady Spring Farm. The horse was Plenipotentiary and the family were the forebears of Lord Roderick Gordon of Shady Spring Farm in the Blind Man Valley near here. His ancestral home is Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire.
Lord and Lady Gordon came to Canada after World War H and now raise thoroughbreds here. Lady Gordon and a staff of four grooms help operate the 1000-acre ranch, with Lady Gordon handling secretarial work and helping think up: names for the horses to be■ registered. The names must! echo lineage, be new and in-: dividual. There are 150 thoroughbreds! on the ranch with their favourite Greensleeves, winner of 18 trophies at Toron-! to’s Royal Winter Fair. Once I when Lady Gordon was ill j the horse came into the house! to look for her.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30294, 21 November 1963, Page 3
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